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Mining resumes at WIPP
Mining operations have resumed after a four-year break at the US Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. A continuous mining machine has begun cutting into panel 8 in the underground salt formation, work that was halted following separate underground events in early 2014.
Waste & Recycling
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Thursday, 18 January 2018
French regulator approves repository safety options
The French regulator, Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire, has issued a positive opinion on the safety options for country's planned deep geological repository for the disposal of high- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. However, it has reservations about the storage of bituminous waste within the facility.
Waste & Recycling
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Monday, 15 January 2018
New melter pours first vitrified waste
A newly installed melter at the Defense Waste Processing Facility at the US Department of Energy's Savannah River site has poured its first canisters of vitrified radioactive waste.
Waste & Recycling
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Thursday, 11 January 2018
Decommissioning progress for unique Canadian reactor
Canadian federal and provincial authorities have completed their technical assessment of Canadian Nuclear Laboratories' draft environmental impact statement for the proposed in-situ decommissioning of Whiteshell Reactor 1.
Waste & Recycling
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Monday, 8 January 2018
British universities to set up nuclear robotics centre
The Centre for Advanced Robotics at the Queen Mary University of London was recently awarded a GBP1.0 million ($1.3 million) grant to help establish a centre of excellence for nuclear robotics in the UK. The focus of the centre will be to develop technology for aiding radioactive waste management.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 22 December 2017
Wylfa fuel removal reaches halfway point
Magnox Ltd has emptied more than half of the used fuel from the Wylfa reactors on Anglesey, in Wales, the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority said today. When operating, Wylfa's two reactors together contained nearly 100,000 fuel elements.
Waste & Recycling
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Thursday, 21 December 2017
UK to support 'next-generation' nuclear technology
The UK government has announced a series of measure that aim to realise the full potential of the of the country's nuclear power industry. The document '
Government to support development of next-generation nuclear technology
' follows publication of the Industrial Strategy white paper last month, a core objective of which is to "ensure the UK is developing the technologies of the future and preparing to seize the opportunities they bring and build on its strengths", the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said.
Nuclear Policies
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Thursday, 7 December 2017
Decommissioning of Candu protoype moves forward
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has extended the deadline for public comments on Canadian Nuclear Laboratories' draft Environmental Impact Statement for decommissioning the country's first ever nuclear power reactor by two weeks to 13 February. The Nuclear Power Demonstration reactor was the prototype for the Candu reactor design.
Waste & Recycling
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Friday, 1 December 2017
Bulgarian waste treatment facility testing completed
A demonstration test run of the Plasma Melting Facility at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant in Bulgaria has been completed. The facility will be used to treat low- and intermediate-level solid radioactive waste, reducing its volume and immobilising it.
Waste & Recycling
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Thursday, 30 November 2017
Chernobyl confinement structure nears completion
Installation of critical systems is progressing within the New Safe Confinement covering the damaged unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The enormous arched structure was put in place one year ago and is expected to be commissioned in the first half of 2018.
Waste & Recycling
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Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Revised schedule for Canadian repository
Canadian Nuclear Laboratories has requested an amended timeline for its Near Surface Disposal Facility project to allow sufficient time to respond to regulatory requests for technical information before submitting its final Environmental Impact Statement for the facility.
Waste & Recycling
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Monday, 27 November 2017
Rosatom and Andra expand cooperation
Russia's Rosatom and the French radioactive waste management agency Andra yesterday signed a cooperation agreement concerning the final isolation of radioactive waste. The agreement builds on a memorandum of understanding the two parties signed in 2012.
Waste & Recycling
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Thursday, 23 November 2017
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